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A Fingerprint Taken From Stonehenge Changes Everything We Know About Its Mystical Origins  AOL.com Source link

“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn about this story: A chemical fingerprint taken of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone reveals that it isn’t from Wales, as was previously understood. Instead, researchers believe that the stone came from the Orcadian Basin in Scotland—roughly 466 miles away from the Stonehenge site. …

A forgotten stone from a 1924 dig is now steering a long running Stonehenge debate in a clear direction. New analyses of the hand sized Newall boulder point to people, not ice, as the movers of the monument’s smaller bluestones. Researchers mapped the rock’s minerals and chemistry and matched it to Craig Rhos-y-Felin in west Wales, about 125 miles from …

Neolithic cow tooth links Stonehenge to Wales and supports the origin of its bluestones  Archaeology News Online Magazine The story of Stonehenge’s construction just became clearer—thanks to a cow’s tooth  The Art Newspaper Could an ancient cow’s tooth unlock the origins of Stonehenge?  The Guardian Scientists uncover secrets of Stonehenge’s mysterious cattle  BGS – British Geological Survey A Single Cow Tooth Just Revealed a …

A cow’s tooth from a jawbone deliberately placed beside the entrance to Stonehenge at the Neolithic monument’s very beginning in 2995 to 2900BC could offer tantalising new evidence about how the stones were transported about 125 miles from Wales to Salisbury Plain. Analysis of the third molar tooth showed the animal began life in Wales, adding weight to a theory …